目睹這些年古巴,、尼加拉瓜,、多米尼加的雪茄制造商們推出不少昂貴雪茄，洪都拉斯的雪茄制造商 C.L.E.決定在這塊高消費市場發(fā)力,。下周，新的庇護系列產(chǎn)品將發(fā)貨給零售商。新品有兩個尺寸,，一款在美國的售價是每支50美元,，另一款是每支60美元。
這兩款昂貴的雪茄都是全洪都拉斯煙葉卷制,，在洪都拉斯生產(chǎn),。C.L.E. 公司的創(chuàng)始人克里斯蒂安·埃羅阿解釋說，售價高的原因是雪茄里加入了一款名為Pinare?o的古巴種子煙葉,。埃羅阿家族本身是洪都拉斯的煙草種植者,。但是他們家族并不種植這款煙葉?？死锼沟侔步忉屨f,，這款Pinare?o十分嬌貴，容易感染病蟲害,，很難種植,。
新品命名為Sensorium（感知），使用了洪都拉斯種植的科羅霍（Corojo）煙葉,，這是埃羅阿家族在洪都拉斯的賈馬斯蘭特山谷種植了幾十年的煙葉品種,。
兩款新茄，一款是 Sensorium Asen 18 ,，一款魚類造型,，最粗的地方是52環(huán)徑，6英寸長,，售價50美元,。一款是Asen 60，60環(huán)徑,，6英寸,，售價60美元。這兩款產(chǎn)品都是每支裝在獨立的棺材盒內(nèi),，每盒20個的包裝,。據(jù)悉這兩款產(chǎn)品每年將限制生產(chǎn)1萬支。
Seeing how there’s no shortage of expensive cigars from Cuba, Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic these days, C.L.E. Cigar Co. has decided to tap into that spendy market and release a pair of high-priced Hondurans. The new Asylum Sensorium will ship to retailers next week and it comes in two sizes: one retailing for $50 each and the other for $60. Both are made in Honduras by C.L.E. and composed entirely of Honduran tobacco.
According to Christian Eiroa, founder and president of C.L.E. (and part of a tobacco-growing family), one of the main reasons for the high cost is the incorporation of Pinare?o, a Cuban-seed tobacco that his family doesn't normally grow. Eiroa says that Pinare?o is a delicate tobacco that’s highly susceptible to disease and very difficult to cultivate. The Asylum Sensorium is also made with Honduran Corojo, a varietal grown for decades by the Eiroa family in the Jamastran Valley.
The Asylum Sensorium Asen 18 is made in the 11/18 size, a bulging figurado made popular by the Eiroas when they owned the Camacho brand. It measures 6 inches by 52 ring gauge at its fattest point, with a $50 price tag. At 6 by 60, the Asen 60 has a suggested retail price of $60. Both come in individual coffins and are packaged in boxes of 20. Production will be limited to an annual run of 10,000 cigars per size.
C.L.E. describes the Asylum brand as the “alter ego” of the company, allowing Eiroa to “experiment with out-of-the-box ideas that break tradition.”
